You have already completed and filed your Probate Notice to Creditorsform.Mail a copy of your filed form to a legal newspaper in Decedent’s resident county at death for its publication once each week for three successive weeks. See: Legal Newspapers & Costs of Publication for possible newspapers and costs of publication.

Timing: Within 30 days after appointment.

Promptly following the third publication, file the Affidavit of Publication, which the newspaper will mail to you.

2. Conducting a Reasonable Review to Identify Decedent’s Creditors

With “reasonable diligence”:

Review Decedent’s:

Correspondence, including correspondence received after date of death; and>

Financial records, including personal financial statements, loan documents, checkbooks, bank statements, and income tax returns — that are in your possession or reasonably available to you; and …

Make a list of each possible creditor found in your review.

Timing: Soon after appointment.

3. Giving Each Possible Creditor Actual Notice

Complete the Header (top half of first page of pleading) to the Creditor’s Claimform.

To each possible creditor found in your review, mail by Certified Mail – Return Receipt Requested:

A copy of your Probate Notice to Creditorsform with its date of first publication filled in, and

A probate estate is its own taxable entity, separate from the Decedent and his/her heirs or beneficiaries, that begins upon the Decedent’s date of death and ends upon final distribution of its assets to the heirs or beneficiaries. As Decedent’s Personal Representative, annually file the Estate’s income tax return (Form 1041, a Fiduciary Return) and pay any income tax due, which may b e done on either a calendar (ie, due April 15 of the following year) or a fiscal year basis.